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The Flamin' Thongs

Australian animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ17056376 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Flamin' Thongs is an Australian children's animated television series screening on ABC3 from 9 May 2014. The 26 12-minute episodes (written by Simon Dodd and Bruce Griffiths) follow the plans of the dysfunctional Thong Family, as they try to put their small coastal hometown of Whale Bay on the map. The family consists of parents Trevor and Brenda, their 12-year-old son Holden and 14-year-old daughter Narelle. Holden's best friend, Rerp, is a cane toad in a school uniform. The family are depicted as a stereotypical 'Aussie' family with Australian slang and iconic objects included in the show.

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The public source identifies “The Flamin' Thongs” as australian animated television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Flamin', Thongs and Australian.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Flamin', Thongs and Australian providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17056376. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Flamin' Thongs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.